Meaning of intelligence | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence.
   uncountable
2. The capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn; the ability to process sentient experience to generate true beliefs with a justified degree of confidence
3. The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
   uncountable
4. The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness
5. (negative unintelligent).
   negative
6. An entity that has such capacities.
   countable
7. An entity that has such capacities
8. intelligent بِذَكاء интелигентно inteligentemente inteligentně intelligent intelligent; begavet έξυπναinteligentemente arukalt, nutikalt بطور عاقلانه älykkäästi intelligemment בִּתבוּנָה बुद्धिमत्तापूर्वक inteligentno értelmesen secara cerdas skynsamlega intelligentemente 聡明に 총명하게 protingai gudri; apķērīgi dengan bijak intelligent intellligent, vettugrozumnie په ځيركي، په ذكاوت inteligentemente (în mod) inteligent (раз)умно inteligentne bistro inteligentno på ett intelligent sätt มีไหวพริบ ze...
9. Information, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.
   uncountable
10. Information, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities
11. inteligencia.
12. A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
    countable
13. A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities
14. The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge: a person of extraordinary intelligence.
15. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
    countable, dated, uncountable
16. Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.
17. An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel.
18. (Psychology) the capacity for understanding; ability to perceive and comprehend meaning
19. good mental capacity: a person of intelligence.
20. old-fashioned news; information
    old-fashioned
21. (Military) military information about enemies, spies, etc

Equivalents

Examples

“Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.”

“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

“Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.”

“From a religious point of view, a bodhisattva with sharp faculties and great intelligence can cause a tremendous upheaval if he or she misuses that power under the influence of negative emotions, like attachment and hatred.”

“The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there.”

“The living intelligence, the Martian within the hood, was slain and splashed to the four winds of heaven, and the thing was now but a mere intricate device of metal whirling to destruction.”

“But there are latent powers within man alone that are not yet fully understood and[…] we cannot definitely state what is, and what is not, due to the interference or influence of discarnate intelligences.”

“He passes beyond the projections and thought forms of his own creation to the wholly other and independent world of the angelic intelligences.”

“Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using.”

“Yet Josephus tells us of Phiala, a ſpring[…] into which Philip the Tetrarch caſt chaffe to try the experiment, and it was rendred up again into the ſtreame of Iordan. Whence he concluded, that this river entertained an underground intelligence with that fountain.”

“He liv’d rather in a fair Intelligence than any Friendſhip with the Favourites;[…]”

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